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Using mapped writes, it's technically possible to expose stale post-eof data on a truncate up operation. Consider the following example: $ xfs_io -fc "pwrite 0 2k" -c "mmap 0 4k" -c "mwrite 2k 2k" \ -c "truncate 8k" -c "pread -v 2k 16" <file> ... 00000800: 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ... This shows that the post-eof data written via mwrite lands within EOF after a truncate up. While this is deliberate of the test case, behavior is somewhat unpredictable because writeback does post-eof zeroing, and writeback can occur at any time in the background. For example, an fsync inserted between the mwrite and truncate causes the subsequent read to instead return zeroes. This basically means that there is a race window in this situation between any subsequent extending operation and writeback that dictates whether post-eof data is exposed to the file or zeroed. To prevent this problem, perform partial block zeroing as part of the various inode size extending operations that are susceptible to it. For truncate extension, zero around the original eof similar to how truncate down does partial zeroing of the new eof. For extension via writes and fallocate related operations, zero the newly exposed range of the file to cover any partial zeroing that must occur at the original and new eof blocks. Signed-off-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240919160741.208162-2-bfoster@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.